Be a Miracle — Make a New Year’s Resolution

I have never made a New Year’s resolution. Until 2016. It might be lack of motivation, or something else. But I’ve always told myself that I’m better than people who make New Year’s resolutions because, like they say, almost nobody sticks with them. Almost nobody achieves their goals they set at the beginning of each year…So why make them?

That makes a lot of sense doesn’t it — The mentality that, “I’m better than you because I never fail at achieving my goals…I don’t make any.” Not really.

Well this year I’m making a New Year’s resolution. It may not carry the credibility that I want yet, because it’s only January 2nd. But maybe I just haven’t understood what the term resolution actually means — until now. I want to motivate you to do the same. There’s something we all know we need to change, improve, do, or stop doing. It’s been nagging us for a while now. Well there’s no better time than TODAY to make that change.

My New Year’s resolution is based on a book by Hal Elrod called The Miracle Morning: the not-so-obvious secret guaranteed to transform your life before 8am. It outlines 6 things to do every morning, that if done before everything else, and with the right mindset, it can improve your life dramatically. I read it at the beginning of September 2015 and it really did transform my life…for about 2 months. Then I slowly stopped doing it. I fizzled out and didn’t continue. But those two months I felt like a champion. I felt I could conquer the world and nobody could stop me. I was in the hardest semester of college I’ve ever experienced, but I did fine. I was waking up for myself and improving myself and it was working.

Then at the end of November my son was born. He was born early. Too early. Thirteen weeks early. It’s January 2nd and he’s never left the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. It changed my reasons for doing the Miracle Morning again. I didn’t want to get up early. It wasn’t worth it, I halfheartedly took my finals the next week and passed my classes…barely. But I ran out of juice and I had no motivation. I didn’t wake up early and sieze the day. I wasted it. I gained 15 pounds before Christmas and I felt crappy.

I’m not sure what happened, but over the next few weeks during Christmas break, my attitude changed. I changed. I wanted to get back to that place where I was before my son was born, but this time I was going to do it for him. I want to be a good father and a good example — someone he can look up to. Somehow that made me determined more than before. With that in mind I wrote down a New Year’s resolution for the the very fist time. As soon as I wrote it down that I was going to do the Miracle Morning every day of 2016, I knew I was going to accomplish it. It seemed so easy because my motivation was so secure.

“Ha!” you say, “It’s only January 2nd. Check in again at the end of February and we’ll see how it’s going.”

I assure you I’ll be on an unbroken streak of Miracle Mornings. I have no doubt I will accomplish my goal. The foundation is solid.

Just to be clear, I’m not an affiliate for Hal Elrod or the Miracle Morning. Maybe I should be though because I believe in the product. I recommended it two at probably a dozen people and at least 4 of them bought the book. That’s not the reason I’m writing this.

I’m writing this to motivate. Someone out there needs to hear a message about self-improvement. I invite you to live your live to a higher standard. Make a change that you know you need to make. Don’t do it for yourself. Do it for someone you love. It’s a much more powerful engine to drive you. Pick someone who needs you to succeed. If you don’t have someone, I’ll be your motivation. Message me and I’ll cheer you on. Let’s be friends, we’ll improve together. Let’s make 2016 the best year of our lives…until next year when we do it again.